Bottler s apron



(No Model.)

A. FISCHER.

'BOTTLERS APRON.

No. 473,698. Patented Apr. 26, 1892.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT FISCHER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLERS APRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,698, dated April 26, 1892.

Application filed January 9, 1892. Serial No. 417,472. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT FISCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottlers Aprons, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of an apron adapted to guard a bottler from the effects of splashing, the same being adjustable relatively to requirements, as will be hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a bottlers apron embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of a modification of a portion thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the three figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a base on which the bottler or workman may stand, thus keeping his feet from a wet floor.

B designates standards, which rise from the base, the same being formed of parts fitted to each other, so that the upper parts 0 may be readily raised and lowered, said parts having openings to receive pins D, whereby they may be held in their adjusted position.

E designates an apron, which is connected at top with the cross-stay E on the parts 0 of the standards and at bottom with the arms F, the latter being pivoted to the parts G of the standards B and also to the stay H, to which the lower end of the apron is tacked, nailed, or otherwise suitably attached.

It will be seen that the apron, which is sup ported on the standards as a frame, may be vertically adjusted as to a desired height by properly raising or lowering the parts 0 of the standards, after which the pins D are inserted in the proper opening of the same, so as to be supported on the parts G, and thus retain the apron in the set position. In the movement of the apron the pivoted arms F turn on their axes, and thus conform to the angle of the apron, this provision of the pivoted arms being also availed of for adjusting the apron relatively to the slant that may be required in order to cause the fluid that may splash on the apron to quickly run down the same and drop on the floor or a receptacle for the same, it being evident that the bottler or workman stands on the base and thus occupies a position behind the apron, whereby he may perform the bottling operations without being splashed on the portions of his body covered by the apron where splashing is liable to occur.

In Fig. 3 I show the standards formed of telescopic parts, which are adj ustably connected by set-screws J, while in Figs. 1 and 2 the lower parts of the standards are slotted to receive the upper parts, the result in either case being similar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bottlers apron consisting of an apron proper connected at its ends to stays, standards having upper parts vertically adjustable and secured to the stay at the upper end of the apron, and arms pivoted to the lower stay and the lower part of the standard, substantially as described.

2. The movable base A, having the standards B secured thereto, the parts 0, vertically adjustable on said standards B, the apron E, having the stays E and H, respectively, at the upper and lower ends thereof, and the arms F, pivoted to said stay H and the standard B, the upper stay E being secured to the parts 0, said parts being combined substantially as described.

ALBER'F FISCHER. 

